SMILE!

Hey Sage!

Guess what? Mommy texted me yesterday and this is how it went:

Mommy: Sage is smiling back already!!
Me: No suh! It's gas! :) (Just so you know, "No suh" is a Boston-accented derivative of "No, sir!" and is often evoked by Bostonians of a certain age - not sure the kiddies here still say this - as a general way to say "No way!" or "That can't be!")
Mommy: No really...she is.
Me: That's awesome. Another genius! (This is a reference to the fact that we've been declaring your sister Sonia a genius since she was about your age and started smiling.)

So, girly, you are already setting the bar very high for yourself. If you start smiling at only 5 weeks old, chances are we'll expect you to do other amazing things as well. Are you sure you want to be such an overachiever? You come from a long line of them, so I'm not sure you can help it.

Now, we just wait and see if you are afflicted with the bane of the Adkins existence - the inability to smile on cue. Nana has this problem, I do, your cousin Annabelle does, and your sister Sonia does. Perhaps it will skip you; it skipped your mommy, so there's hope yet.

Love you, your Sageness.

Auntie K